Culture, Identity, and Critical Theory in Expressive Arts Therapy: A Literature Review

This literature review was an initial inquiry looking at research in expressive arts therapy (EAT) to see how this field was understanding, conceptualizing, and using culture in their analysis and treatment of individual well-being. It delved into how the field constructed the relationship between individuals and their culture. The definition of culture, health, mental health, and the connection between them was examined. Research also included creative arts therapy (CAT) and its emerging interest in critical theory, why it was important, where it was being used, and how it contributed to an understanding of society as a source of individual pain, erasure, and marginalization. A central focus was how socio-cultural categories such as race, gender, class, and ability, and their accompanying socio-cultural identities, harmed individuals in a society that used these categories and identities for dominance, control, and oppression. This writer wanted to see how EAT and CAT identified, understood, evaluated, challenged, and perpetuated these socio-cultural issues of dominance, identity, and difference within their respective fields. Implications for both clients and therapists/theorists were included, especially for those therapists/theorists carrying majority intersecting identities of privilege (white and/or male and/or middle to upper class and/or able-bodied, etc.). Future research and the writer’s response followed in the discussion

Land Grant Application- Hunnewell, Jonathan (Roxbury)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office for Jonathan Hunnewell for service in the Revolutionary War.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_mass/1195/thumbnail.jp

1861-12-08 Mr. Hunnewell requests relief for his family

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Adaptive Interference Mitigation Using Frequency-Selective Limiters Over GPS Band For Automotive Applications

In this work, we address the challenges associated with the necessity to protect Global Positioning system (GPS) receivers from various types of electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by internal or external sources. We have developed a compact, lightweight, and passive frequency selective limiter (FSL) technology that automatically and adaptively protects vulnerable input circuits of a GPS receiver from unwanted emissions and prevents a GPS receiver from going into saturation. This technology is based on using magnetostatic surface waves in a magnetically biased ferrite film. The nonlinear processes in ferrite films enable discrimination of signals based on their power levels. In these devices, the frequency-selective transmission response adjusts rapidly and automatically, in real time, such that no portion of the output spectrum exceeds a designated power threshold. FSLs are capable of mitigating multiple interfering signals without prior knowledge of the timing or the frequency content of the interferers. A few examples of FSL design and measured characteristics are provided for GPS L1 band

Reconnaissance surficial geology of the Spencer Lake [15-minute] quadrangle, Maine

Maine Geological Survey, Open-File Map 76-10https://digitalmaine.com/mgs_maps/1553/thumbnail.jp

Literatures of resistance under U.S. “cultural siege”: Kazuo Ishiguro’s narratives of occupation

Through close readings of An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day, supported by references to his other works, this article argues that Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels betray an understated but distinct anti-American sentiment. Much has been made of the narcissism of Ishiguro’s narrators and their attempts to manipulate historical and personal records to serve their own purposes. However, one of those purposes that have gone undetected is a willful political resistance to the postwar Americanization of Japan and Europe. In other words, the article argues that the novels discussed are, in fact, works of propaganda and, further, that they evidence, with a high degree of subtlety and linguistic sophistication, Ishiguro’s own concerns that world literature and world culture more broadly were, as a result of World War II, subsumed into the American model, becoming homogenized

Registered Ship Notes

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Land Grant Application- Hunnewell, Thomas (Emden)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Thomas Hunnewell for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Elizabeth Colby.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1478/thumbnail.jp

Probing for Conformational Changes in the Repair Enzyme Mfd Using Mutant Protein Constructs

DNA repair is essential for survival, as damage to the genome can interrupt the precarious balance of cell functions, causing further mutations and possibly leading to cancer. The bacterial transcription repair coupling factor, Mfd, is capable of recognizing a stalled RNA polymerase at a site of DNA damage. The Mfd works both to remove the RNA polymerase through its motor function (utilizing the energy of ATP to translocate along DNA), and to recruit the DNA repair complex UvrA/B/C. To study conformational changes in the protein, we are creating multiple mutants of the full length Mfd protein. My approach is to use a cleavable mutant of full-length Mfd as a template for further mutations. This will allow us to probe for conformational changes by changing interactions at the interface of the two halves of Mfd, and then using the ability to cut with TEV protease as a sensor to identify and characterize the open state of the protein. By introducing this TEV protease cut site at residue 450 in the protein linker region between the N (amino-) and C (carboxy-) terminal domains, we can then assess the conformational changes Mfd must undergo to obtain activity. We can study the effect of further mutations on the full length and cut versions of the protein. Another approach attempted in this study involves using cysteine modification of the full length Mfd protein as a sensor for these conformational changes. Mfd acts as a model system for studying the DNA repair mechanisms found in humans, and the elucidation of functional and conformational changes in Mfd contributes to studying disease phenotypes resulting from aberrant transcription coupled repair

Land Grant Application- Hunnewell, Thomas (Emden)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Thomas Hunnewell for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Elizabeth Colby.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1478/thumbnail.jp